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CRE and Residential RE Prices
calculatedriskblog.com - 6/26/2009
CRE and Residential RE Prices
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Here is the CRE report mentioned yesterday, from RC Analytics : Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Indices, June 2009 The Moody’s/REAL National All Property Type Aggregate Index for April measures 135.31, a decrease of 8.6% from the previous month. The index now stands 25.3% below the level ...
Moody's Joins S.&P. in Warning on California Debt
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com - 6/20/2009
Moody's Joins S.&P. in Warning on California Debt
— dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com — The state of California is facing a "multi-notch" downgrade of its debt if it fails to resolve its enormous budget woes, Moody's Investors Service said Friday. (more) Moody's Joins S.&P. in Warning on California Debt

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reuters.com - 6/23/2009
U.S. credit rating a solid triple-A: Moody's
— reuters.com — TOKYO (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service said on Tuesday that the U.S. government's triple-A credit rating was safe but added that it could be at risk if Washington were unable to bring its public debt back to a downward trajectory. Financial ... (more) U.S. credit rating a solid triple-A: Moody's

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prudentinvestor.blogspot.com - 6/24/2009
Moody's Next Epic Fail: "US Remains a Solid AAA Nation"
— prudentinvestor.blogspot.com — While the currently ongoing two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is probably not only discussing the state of the US economy but also how to maintain the global attraction status of its only product, Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) in unlimited amounts which they prefer to ... (more) Moody's Next Epic Fail: "US Remains a Solid AAA Nation"

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US Commercial Real Estate Plunging
Daily Markets — ... and reported that nationwide prices for all types of commercial real estate (CRE) plunged by 8.6% in April from March and now stand 25.3% below a year ago, and are off 29.5% from their October 2007 peak. The Moody’s/REAL CPPI is a repeat sales index constructed very much along the same lines as the Case-Schiller index of residential real estate prices. In the graph below, Calculated Risk http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/06/cre-and-residential-re-prices.html has overlaid the Case-Schiller index on the graph from the Moody’s report. It clearly appears that CRE prices ...

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